Workshop Series: Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups

October 2021-January 2022 I am offering this series of four workshops about how to meet common obstacles facing mutual aid groups. For each of the posted workshops, you can find the slides, links to resources mentioned, templates of proposals I discussed in the workshops, and other tools in the links below each video here. The last in the series is coming up January 20. Register here.

WORKSHOP 1: No Masters, No Flakes

Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.

Presentation slides (PDF)
Results from the live polls (PDF)

Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making (video)

WORKSHOP 2: Decision-Making

Slides
Poll results

Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes! (video)
Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) (video)

WORKSHOP 3: Skills for Abolitionist Practice

Live transcription is available here.

A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.

Resources

WORKSHOP 4: Bringing New People Into the Work

More videos from this series:

Building Accountable Communities Video Series

Please watch and share this new video series featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Kiyomi Fujikawa, and Mariame Kaba, produced by me and Hope Dector. 

Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? We made four short videos featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby talking about these issues, and then recorded a live discussion between Shannon, Kiyomi, and Mariame exploring models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair. 

The online event:

Part 1: What is Accountability?

Part 2: What is Self-Accountability?

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